Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead

Lead Integrated ERP Release and Environment Strategy

Take ownership of the integrated ERP release calendar across SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and connected enterprise applications. Define and enforce release governance, entry and exit criteria, cutover controls, deployment approvals, rollback and contingency planning, and hypercare expectations. Coordinate the assessment of SAP Public Cloud release and upgrade impacts, including feature review, regression scope, post-upgrade testing, and business readiness.

Environment Strategy and Configuration Management

Own the application environment strategy across development/configuration, test, quality, and production-aligned landscapes. Define the purpose, refresh and rebaseline principles, access controls, and scheduling for these environments. Coordinate configuration synchronization and deployment sequencing across the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 3-system landscape where applicable.

• Manage rebaselining and environment merge plans for parallel workstreams to ensure changes are reconciled, tested, traceable, and promoted through approved paths.
• Maintain release dependency maps spanning configuration, extensions, integrations, data, security roles, workflows, and connected SaaS products.
• Chair release readiness reviews and drive the closure of unresolved defects, testing gaps, data dependencies, and operational readiness actions.

Deployment Coordination and Governance

Coordinate release packaging and deployment activities with functional, technical, integration, data, security, and vendor teams. Own production change windows, freeze periods, emergency-change governance, and post-deployment verification. Establish release metrics, defect leakage reporting, deployment success measures, and continuous improvement actions.

• Maintain authoritative release plans, environment calendars, configuration baselines, change records, and deployment evidence.
• Partner with QA to define regression strategy, automated-test coverage, upgrade-test execution, and risk-based test scope.
• Coordinate business communications for planned releases, outages, limitations, validation needs, and post-release status.

Operational Handoff and Risk Management

Manage the operational handoff from project delivery into steady-state support, ensuring support teams receive runbooks and known-error information. Escalate provider or SAP release risks, environment constraints, or cross-team conflicts with clear business impact and decision options.